HLINks - Are you missing out on the Housing LIN weekly update?
Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 4th June 2021.
This week we published a new Housing LIN case study on Octavia housing association's End of Life Care in extra care housing project with partner St Christopher's Hospice. And, in our first HAPPI Hour session of the month, we heard from the partners about their Better Care, Better Endings project at yesterday afternoon's HAPPI Hour webinar. We were also joined by speakers from NHS England's Anticipatory Care team on the forthcoming community health framework and ADASS’ housing policy co-chair exploring how to better engage and integrate with housing. Check out this session and our exciting June programme on our Forthcoming Events webpage. Register now!
We also released a guest blog by Matter Architectures' Roland Karthaus on the ethos of care prompted by last month's The Regeneration Game HAPPI Hour and the presentation by Igloo Regeneration's John Nordon.
You can also take a tour of other news and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more. For example, we highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including a new report by King’s College London that offers a pre-Covid snapshot of day centres in south London and a survey by the IMPACT project that the Housing LIN is associated with at the University of Birmingham in which they want to get your views of anyone connected with or working in adult social care.
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Stay connected and, above all, with new lockdown arrangements now in place, remain safe.
Jeremy
New Housing LIN resources out this week
NEW Housing LIN Case Study: Better Lives, Better Endings
We are pleased to showcase a new Housing LIN case study (No 162) featuring a project undertaken in partnership between Octavia housing association and St Christopher’s Hospice. The aim was to encourage an inclusive and proactive approach to planning the end-of-life care for everyone involved. Early findings and Covid-19 adaptions to the project disclosed what might be done better to ensure the best possible end-of-life for residents living in Octavia’s extra care housing schemes.
NEW Housing LIN guest blog: From care-free to care-ful housing with social purpose
We are pleased to share with you our most recent guest blog titled ‘From care-free to care-ful with social purpose’ written by Roland Karthaus from Matter Architecture. Housing-with-care needs care in its development as well as in its operation, to cater for quality of life.
But the government’s current planning reforms appear to have paved the way for quantity over quality of housing. Roland asks if and how we should rely less on mandates and more on encouraging care in the way housing is developed by building trust between organisations around a shared ethos of caring about what we do and what happens as a result.
Have your say - older people from ethnic minorities housing needs and perceptions study
The Housing LIN has also been commissioned by Kirklees Council to conduct a study into the housing needs and preferences of older people from ethnic minorities living in Kirklees. This research will make sure that the Council has the evidence necessary to plan for homes that meet the needs of all communities.
If you are able to help with this research by identifying individuals living in Kirklees to take part in this research, or would like to learn more, please email research@housinglin.org.uk
Coronavirus Update
With the easing of Covid-19 restriction rules that came into force last month and further relaxations from Monday this week, check out current and relevant sector guidance on the pandemic on our Coronavirus Info Hub along with a range of Housing LIN practice briefings for the sector and links to other useful information and websites.
And if you missed last month’s launch of the St Monica Trust/Housing LIN RE-COV Study, that ‘state of the nation’ report on COVID-19 and its impact on the retirement village and extra care housing sector, you can now download the presenters’ powerpoints and watch a recording of the HAPPI Hour session.
What else caught our interest?
- Health Foundation report: Adult social care and COVID-19
- CACHE report: Renting during the COVID-19 pandemic in Great Britain: the experiences of private tenants
- Social Care Future blog: From permanent lockdown to an equal life
We invite you to post any or reply to questions on our discussion forum. It allows you to share information, raise issues and ask questions to solve a tricky issue. Why not share your organisation’s COVID-19 risk plan or information about how you are engaging with residents remotely?
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
What caught our interest?
- South Yorkshire Housing Association blog: Joyful Independent Living
- Manchesters’ Ambition for Ageing podcasts: Ambition for Ageing Podcast Episode 3: how can we work with communities to build capacity?
- House of Commons Library briefing: Social rented housing (England): past trends and prospects
- Home Renaissance Foundation book (to purchase): The Home in the Digital Age
- SCIE social care blog: Older adults and the future of housing - Social care
- Placeshapers news item: Diverse Voices – Older People
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
What caught our interest?
- NHSX/IPC survey: This is your chance to inform future policy on digital technology in adult social care
- Appello product launch: Introducing SmartLife, the ground-breaking digital dispersed alarm that changes your plans for moving to digital.
- Tunstall case study: Delta Wellbeing - The CONNECT Project: Proactive Technology Enabled Care
- Legrand case study: Conwy County Borough Council: Thefirst call monitoring centre in Wales to beDigitally Enabled.
- ARCO blog on technology: The invisible plan
- Gloucester City Homes news item: Smart Home Technology Trial to Improve Health & Safety of Disabled Residents
- AT Today news: Tunstall Healthcare acquires Dutch organisation Secuvita
Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Learning Disability
What caught our interest?
- University of Birmingham survey: Take part in the adult social care IMPACT survey
- MHA campaign: FixCareForAll
- Advance Housing Association blog: Caught between a rock and a hard place. A blog by Ian Gilders. Advance's Executive Director of Housing
- KCL report: Caring in company: a pre-Covid snapshot of day centres in south London
- The King’s Fund podcast: What is the role of the NHS in tackling health inequalities?
- Community Catalysts news item: Groundbreaking inquiry asks ‘Whose social care is it anyway?’
Housing and Dementia
Manchester University research project is looking to recruit people over 70 to share their experiences of life during the pandemic
Do you know someone over 70 and helping a partner living with dementia at home? Do they use a day centre and/or have outside support before the COVID-19 pandemic began? Yes? Then please tell the research team about their experiences during the pandemic in a telephone interview.
The University of Manchester are looking for older carers (70) of people living with dementia who might be prepared to take part in a telephone interview as part of a research programme. The University is being supported by tide charity (together in dementia everyday) to do research into the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on people who previously used a day centre or had outside support before the pandemic. They are particularly keen to involve this group of people as they haven’t been represented in previous similar research. Please contact the researcher to find out more by emailing: jayne.astbury@Manchester.ac.uk
APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry Report
Did you miss this recent APPG Inquiry report?
Watch and listen again to the launch of the new report on housing and dementia here and be inspired by Wendy Mitchell as she shares her personal story about living with dementia.
And remember if you missed our HAPPI Hour sessions on housing and dementia, the recording and presentations are available.
What else caught our interest:
- Alzheimer’s Scotland feature: All about ADAM
Wales
For Welsh government guidance on COVID-19, visit: https://gov.wales/coronavirus
What else caught our interest?
- Legrand case study: Conwy County Borough Council: Thefirst call monitoring centre in Wales to beDigitally Enabled.
- Tunstall case study: Delta Wellbeing - The CONNECT Project: Proactive Technology Enabled Care
Scotland
For Scottish government guidance on COVID-19, go to https://www.gov.scot/collections/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance/
Last week was our first Scottish HAPPI Hour. We look forward to organising more, but in the meantime you can watch the recording and download the slides below.
Events
Sign up to our June HAPPI Hour sessions
Have we got an exciting programme for you! Our June programme is now out and you can now book onto our free HAPPI Hour live-streams to quench you thirst for information on a housing and care matters.
Next week, in our HAPPI Hour session is with Clarion Group, Southway Housing Trust, South Yorkshire Housing Association and MHA, we take a look at each organisation’s road map to healthy ageing and a strategic approached to housing for older people.
Then on 17 June, we shine a light on research and development into cohousing and extra care housing for older LGBT communities with Surrey University, Tonic Housing, One Housing, Anchor Hanover and the LGBT Foundation.
And we round off the month with a session on 24 June with MotionSpot and Fine&Able looking at the latest in contemporary and accessible adaptations and the Centre for Ageing Better’s The Good Home Inquiry.
Also, following our HAPPI Hour session with ADASS and the Home Office on the EU Settlement Scheme, they have announced a new series of upcoming webinars. We look forward to organising another housing one with them over the summer.
And you may be interested in these other events supported by the Housing LIN
In next week’s HLINks
Next week we publish two new guest blogs; the first by Aileen Evans, CEO of Grand Union Housing Group and CIH President on the recent RE-COV study report on the impact of COVID-19 on the retirement village and extra care housing sector. The second is by Professor Roy Sandbach, chair of the Housing LIN’s TAPPI Panel and his presentation on the role of technology for an ageing population to last week’s AGM of the APPG on Housing and Care for Older People.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.